The growth of the Wi-Fi market has made it easy to find a connection. There are over 12 million commercial and community Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK with many of them offering access for free.

If digital devices similar to that of Google Glass begin to replace smartphones, we will see more data usage. Wi-Fi, or an evolution of the current technology with unlimited speed, will be the go-to-choice for data delivery, potentially removing 4G and 5G networks altogether by 2025.

The global Wi-Fi market is consistently growing with an estimated worth of 33.5 billion dollars by 2020. It is also predicted that this year there will be a Wi-Fi hotspot for every 8 humans.

Increasingly, Wi-Fi is the glue that holds our connected world together, satisfying the appetites of Netflix and Spotify bingers, who use their phones in a very different way to a decade ago.